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Soeur Louise de la miserecorde
Themes of death, desire and nature
Also symbolic of how she never had kids
Nora and Torvald fading love
“Oh death struck love, oh diskindled fire.”
“But now the days are over of desire.”
No thank you John
Female rejection
Nora and Dr. Rank/ Nora and Torvald
Feminist themes
“I have no heart? -Perhaps I have not.”
“You know I never loved you John.”
Goblin Market
Sisterhood- Nora and Mrs Linde
Nora leaving her family
Challenges the fallen women archetype
“Talked as modest maidens should.”
“For there is no friend like a sister.”
“To strengthen while one stands.”
Maude Clare
1 rhyming couplet per stanza - One woman can have Thomas
Loss of purity represented by lillies and fallen leaves
Nora and the sacrifice of male relationships
“Take it or leave it as you will, I wash my hands thereof.”
“Here’s my half of the golden chain you wore about your neck.”
Winter my secret
Setset
Stanza 1: 3 rhyming couplets- secret impenetrable
Last stanza, uneven rhyming. Makes it playful
Nora and her secret
“Only my secrets mine, and I won't tell.”
“I wear my mask for warmth.”
Remember
Example of true love, loss and memory
Juxtaposes Nora and her farce of a relationship with Torvald
Repetition of remember serves as a symbol of a fading memory
Memory of what they thought was a good relationship
“Better far you should forget and smile.”
“It will be late to counsel then or pray.”
From the Antique
The burden of women/ a need to escape
Mirrors Noras life
Broad commentary on the societal expectations of women
“I wish I wish I were a man.”
“We’re nothing at all in the world.”
“Doubly blank in a woman’s lot.”
Echo
Opposes Ibsens realism
Focuses on the longing/ desire to have love+ connection
Similar to Nora and her longing for a perfect relationship
“Come back to me in dreams.”
“Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet.”
A Birthday
Themes of freedom and joy (Birds)
Celebration of love and nature, expressing the joy and beauty of being in love.
Opposes Ibsen with it’s imagery of nature
“My heart is like a sleeping bird.”
“Is come my love is come to me.”
In the Round Tower at Jhansi
Love and death/ sacrifice are intertwined
Rossetti setting aside religious beliefs for the strength of love
Juxtaposes Torvalds reaction+ his so called love
“It is not pain thus to kiss and die.”
“Not a hope in this world remained.”
